Word: twins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surface for weeks to come. Faced with the growing possibility that the Martian skies will not clear up completely during Mariner's planned three-month photography mission, JPL controllers fed a new temporary "shooting script" into the spacecraft's onboard computer, thus enabling Mariner's twin TV cameras to look for holes in the cloud cover...
...Checks and Twin Midgets. The catalyst for turning prospective investors into true believers is the "Golden Opportunity Meeting." Held in local halls around the country, these rousing sessions, led by flashily dressed men waving fat checks, raise tantalizing visions of big money and easy living for the frequently gullible audience. Often Turner himself will appear, accompanied by twin midgets who serve as his goodwill ambassadors. Sometimes balancing himself on two chairs. Turner spellbinds his listeners by recounting how he succeeded despite his harelip, his eighth-grade education and his early poverty...
...maneuver, controlled entirely by its onboard computer, the $76.8 million windmill-shaped robot became the first man-made satellite of another planet. As pictures of the dust-obscured Martian surface began reaching earth, delighted mission controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. Calif., reported that Mariner's twin TV cameras and ultraviolet and infra-red sensors were all performing flawlessly...
...world. In Manhattan, Paris, Los Angeles and London, the young are falling upon gaudily decorated knit tops like moths upon tweed. Top-ranking designers such as Bill Blass, Anne Klein, Valentino and Yves St. Laurent are making the sweater an essential part of their new layered-look lines. Those twin oracles of the fashion world, Vogue and Eugenia Sheppard, agree on its popularity: "Fashion is a sweater this fall," says Eugenia, while Vogue stretches things further to call this "the year of the sweater...
...account, the sweater is back with a vengeance. Not that it was ever far away: Bryn Mawr matrons can be separated only at gunpoint from their cherished cashmere twin sets, and skiers have always been attached to bright, bulky, over-everything pullovers. Generally, however, sweater styles run in cycles, tight-fitting then bulky, and the current trend favors the very slim-for both the wearer and the worn. The baggy Shetlands of the '50s, for example, are now rarely in evidence. "It's the European fit we see now," says New York City Designer Stan Herman. "Much...